Odd couple: Making sense of the curious concept of knowledge management

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 995-1018

  Alvesson, Mats ^a   Kärreman, Dan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035511223     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6486.00269     Document Type: Article

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